NOW that Britain's public-school elite is in retreat, is the way it talks disappearing too? For years social levellers have been celebrating the decline of Received Pronunciation (RP), the clipped, ...
New York law firm Debevoise & Plimpton has a problem. No one can pronounce Debevoise. Seeing as the firm is becoming increasingly international, with clients from all over the globe – the firm has ...
According to reports, David and Victoria Beckham have started taking elocution lessons to make themselves more posh We always suspected that Posh wasn't as, well, posh as implied, and now she might ...
Excerpts from Keats, Tennyson, and Woolf lingered in the air of Boylston Hall’s Fong Auditorium last Tuesday, as a dozen students took part in the English Department’s annual Boylston Prize ...
David and Victoria Beckham have started taking elocution lessons in a bid to boost their US career prospects, a report claims. According to the Daily Star, ex-Spice Girl Victoria has decided that she ...